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And so Need For Speed's identity crisis goes on, the only thing the games in the series seem to have in common are fast cars and mediocre review scores. What was once EA's premiere racer has tried to dook it out with Midnight Club and Project Gotham as a street racer, and two years ago went kind of "Racedriver: Gran Forzmo" with Pro Street which had no cops, no car chases, just fast cars and races, mostly on closed road circuits. Last year NFS went Undercover as you played a cop infiltrating a car smuggling gang in a HUGE free-roaming map. But despite the size of the play area and and expensive real time movie back story it turned out to be one of the famous franchise's lowest points for many years. This year Shift seems to be trying to the Gran Turismo/Forza/ Racedriver thing again with another stab at the serious racer, encompassing a "career" and all the spares, upgrades, tuning and tweaking anyone can stand, but they couldn't leave the street racer heritage completely behind, so nitrous boost is an option on many of the cars.
First off I have to say this isn't one of EA's better presented games; the menus when compared to the recent DiRT 2 are clunky and slow to use, and the loading times seem sluggish too, with several of the other Gamecell guys commenting on the time it takes to enter a race from the setup screen (25-65 seconds). You don't have to use them, but the tuning and upgrades departments are easy to use, and can be made complex or simplified by using your "race engineer" to offer presets. You'd best raise the amount of steering lock for the numerous Drift events, but this means should you use a car set up for drift then go race at say, Road America you'll be right up the swanny with hopelessly oversensitive steering – it's a daft oversight that they didn't include a quick setup screen just before race. All tuning options can only be done before entering an event, meaning if things feel way wrong, you have to quit, tune it, then reload the race and hope it feels right. Although you can "quick race" at any track to set up a car in advance, there aren't any practice sessions or qualifying sessions attached to the race events so occasionally a car will just be all wrong, sometimes with the gear ratios set all wrong so the car hits the rev limiter on the straights or can't get anywhere near its top speed because you put a lot of downforce on for a twisty circuit. This means you may as well leave everything set to medium defaults and makes a nonsense of even including extensive tuning options.
For those who like to know what they're going to get to drive (and where) here are some lists:
Shift car list: • 2006 Aston Martin DBR9 • 2009 Audi R8 LMS • 2008 Audi R8 • 2008 Audi RS 4 • 2007 Audi S3 • 2007 Audi TT 3.2 quattro • 2006 Audi S4 • BMW M3 E36 • BMW M3 E46 • BMW M3 E92 • 2008 BMW 135i Coupé • 2009 BMW M3 GT2 • 2007 BMW Z4 M Coupé • 2008 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 • 2006 Dodge Challenger Concept • 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 • Falken Tire 2010 Ford Mustang GT • 2010 Ford Shelby GT500 • 2007 Ford Focus ST • 2006 Ford GT • 2006 Need For Speed Shelby Terlingua • 1996 Ford Escort RS Cosworth • 2009 Chevrolet Camaro SS • 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS • 2006 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 • 2006 Honda Civic Si • 2000 Honda S2000 • 2006 Koenigsegg CCX • 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 • 2007 Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 • 2007 Lamborghini Reventón • 2006 Lotus Elise 111R • 2007 Lotus Exige S • 2005 Maserati MC12 GT1 • 2008 Mazda MX-5 • 2006 Mazda RX-8 • 1995 Mazda RX-7 • 1994 McLaren F1 • 2007 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Edition • 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG • 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer EVOLUTION • 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer EVOLUTION IX MR-edition • 2003 Infiniti G35 (V35) • 1997 Nissan 200SX (S14) • 2009 Nissan 370Z (Z34) • 2006 Nissan 350Z (Z33) • 2009 Nissan GT-R SpecV (R35) • 2008 Nissan GT-R (R35) • 2000 Nissan Silvia (S15) spec.R AERO • 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) • 1972 Nissan Skyline 2000GT-R • 1992 Nissan 240SX (S13) • 2006 Pagani Zonda F • 2010 Pagani Zonda R • 2008 Porsche 911 GT2 • 2009 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR • 2006 Porsche 911 GT3 RS • 2004 Porsche Carrera GT • 2007 Porsche Cayman S • 2008 Renault Mégane RS • 2007 SEAT Leon CUPRA • 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX STi • 2007 Lexus LF-A Concept • 2008 SCION tC • 1986 Toyota Corolla GTS (A86) • 2008 Volkswagen Scirocco • 2006 Volkswagen Golf GTI
Shift track list: 1. Alpental 2. Autopolis International Racing Course 3. Ambush Canyon 4. Brands Hatch 5. Dakota 6. Ebisu Circuit 7. Glendale 8. Hazyview 9. Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 10. London 11. Miytomi 12. Nordschleife 13. Road America 14. Rustle Creek 15. Silverstone 16. Circuit de Spa Francorchamps 17. Tokyo 18. Willow Springs Plus several tracks have shorter circuits that are used in addition.
As I said, the game looks great, with nicely detailed cars and crisp, well-drawn tracks with plenty of trackside detail and wonderful, organic looking trees and bushes that sway in the wind. Shift quite possibly has the best representations of the Nordschleife, Brands Hatch, Laguna Seca, Road America and Spa I've seen, and the stunning London track rivals anything that you'll have seen in the Project Gothams. If you like reliving your victories or crashes the replay mode is pretty good. It isn't quite as flexible as Grid's or DiRT's but like in NFS: Pro Street, once you're registered it does allow you to upload snapshots to www.needforspeed.com, view and download the last 10 you saved, view other player's pics and your stats, which is a nice touch.
Sadly it's not all good news down at the track. The game seems to have been rushed to the shelves and this is exhibited by a catalogue of odd things like cars that seem to drop in from a few feet off the ground at the start of some races (this is a hangover from Pro Street) and promo girls on the grid are sometimes stuck right in the middle of your car! (see screenshot below left) There's also a serious glitch in the handling and physics of the game that, it should be said, not everyone seems to have appear, and while we've had different experiences with different copies of the game so many other people have experienced the same sort of thing, we can only presume it's a problem with the way the game has been copied onto the disc. The handling and physics, which seem fine in the early stages of your career with slower cars, sometimes go completely ummm… mental, with your car bouncing all over the place like the shock absorbers have dropped off, or occasionally one will settle into a series of bounces like a lowrider with hydraulic suspension! It's very disconcerting and is particularly common with cars like the Bugatti Veyron, the Pagani Zonda R and the Porsche Carrera, and disappointingly on classic tracks like the Nurburgring Nordschleife and Spa, but can happen with just about any car, on any track, and can be caused by leaving the track, or simply by sliding sideways or clipping a curb or just by passing a dip or bump in the track.
But then we loaded the game up the next day and everything was fine! Cars and races that were plagued with this strange bug now handled as we'd expect. Switch the 360 off and reload and it might be back again, it seems completely random as to when and why it appears. Despite highly variable difficulty which is often compounded by tricky handling, SHIFT is still a mostly enjoyable game to progress through, even though you have to retry a lot of events. The star system's various goals mean you will still make regular progress and the achievements seem well spaced and keep popping up to keep you engaged. Tier one events can be used to unlock high-tiers, and a well-modded and tuned tier one car can be used to win tier 3 races, but it'll be very demanding, meaning that, whilst the game seems to adjust to your abilities and class of vehicle quite well, you can set your own challenge almost infinitely. Making a race almost impossible to win or having a guide line on screen to show you the best line and automatic brakes and assisted steering, the options cater for all levels of driver experience and ability. There's open racing, single-model manufacturer races, time trials on tracks full of other cars, endurance races, demolition derbies and… FAR too much bloody drift racing for my liking, which seems a more and more wasteful use of a high performance car the more you do it. At the end of each tier you'll be challenged to a one-on-one duel by a rival, and have to either get ahead of him by 5 seconds or simply beat him to the flag.
I must say I've enjoyed a lot of my time with Shift, it ticked so many of my boxes that I had to love it. I mean - How could you not love a game that gives you the chance to race across Westminster Bridge in a Zonda F, or trash a Lamborghini in a demolition derby? But to love it you also have to accept its eccentricities - like many high performance cars and their quirks. It's like Jekyll & Hyde, but Hyde rears his ugly head far too often. A potentially first class racer ruined by some inherent bugs and glitches that, it seems, the developers are unlikely or unable to fix with an update patch. If it worked properly for everyone, all of the time Shift would rate a solid 9/10 unreservedly, but with its dark side only too happy to show up and ruin a race - and even render winning some series impossible, it can only be an unhappy 6. Let's hope EA fix it (if they can) so everyone can enjoy the game as it was intended. However I'm not going to hold my breath for that, especially with Forza Motorsport 3 just around the corner.


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"What sleep?"
Call a pass, Xu Yi's heart was pounding, his voice calm as possible.
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"How do you have my phone?"
"Find Huian holding."
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Boring for a long time, suddenly said: "could not, I've never played one."
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He wanted to laugh, Yao rain ring has changed, no longer is it the first sad song, but he sang "End of life."
They are silent.
"You're out!"
Yao Yu was shocked and hesitated, said that: "... too late ..."
"Down the stairs, I am five minutes to." Xu Yi in the phone do not want to dawdle, so much hung up the phone.
Telephone Kanle Yan Yao Yu, the heart and anxious.
He mean? He is not and Dulei with it?
So late, to go or not? She was a little confused.
The telephone rang, Tong into thinking: "Yao Yao, sleep yet?"
"Sleep, oh, is it going to sleep." Yao's heart burst forth rain jumped up, while a guilty conscience.
Tong thinking into the sound as usual: "go to bed early, tomorrow morning I'll pick you breakfast."
"Ah." Yao rain hung up the phone, she was doing?
She stared at the phone read a long time, and finally a hand organ. Put out the lights, Yao Zhang rain came down in front of the window looking at.
Tong into thinking she could not refuse, but their heart flew downstairs. Xu Yi can not get through her in the phone, look like it?
He will leave?
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Lamp has been lit. Yao Yu stood by the window suddenly feel sad.
Like a revolving door in front of us turned past. She stared spellbound watching the car downstairs.
Hand tightly grabbed the phone.
Suddenly the headlights off, she was surprised.
Also see the lights lit up the car, Xu Yi fuzzy figure appeared in the light, he looked up.
Yao, turned sideways rain apprehensive.
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Yao rain finally press the power button hand, she lightly hit in the past: "Do not wait, I'm asleep."
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Between only said so, he finished listening to the sound end ... ... mind puzzled her, Yao Yu eyebrows. But thinking into, thinking as he ... ... the first time she thought of him.
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If you do not think a pair of her good, if not thousands of miles away thinking into looking for, if not to think back into the illusion of Li, all of this, they look like it?
Yao Yu shook his head, remembering the feeling of the square in Lhasa, and sometimes miss no longer be regained. She whispered: "Say what you mean now."
"I always meet with you, now and tomorrow, what is the difference? You are not do not know me, thick skin!" Xu Yi in an idle answer. He must see her, he will not want to miss.
No matter what attitude the rain Yao, in his heart he Leng Heng, eyes look to the upstairs, if she hangs up, he felt entirely possible at this time of deep quiet shouted her name to force her to appear. Xu Yi in the think and smile, and he and Yao did not want to rain around in circles again, and if her uncomfortable, afraid that she refused to get comfortable, and death into that comparison, he now chose the latter.
Tomorrow? Tong into thinking that tomorrow morning to pick her up to eat breakfast.
Yao Yu a panic: "No, I'm down."
Xu Yi in satisfaction as she hung up the phone.
Yao took the bag down the rain. She stood looking out of the shadows downstairs for fear of thinking into unexpected Tong downstairs.
The streets are quiet, Yao quickly through the rain get in the car. Xu Yi did not say anything in the car drove away.
Yao did not ask to go where the rain and nervous.
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Xu Yi in the opening to the river and stopped on: "Why did not you say?"
Yao did not know that even the rain, I heard he asked to answer one sentence: "You do not just say that between the words?"
Xu Yi in the Ce Guotou see her. Yao rain head down, exposing a long neck, side and looked, her face so small: "I love you!"
Yao rain did not look up and buried even lower. She did not realize he was so straightforward.
He and his confession Dulei ... ... ... ... she understood everything. A burst of joy filled my heart fuzzy, cheeks burned at a crimson.
"Rain, I love you, not whim, not, fun."
Yao Yu raised his head, eyes flickering his eyes and look to look so genuine and sincere, thinking into ... ... is such thinking into looking at her.
She suddenly blurted out: "Like me? Like I'm special than other kids?"
Xu Yi in the laugh: "ah, like to say I Fanjian?"
Yao Yu face turned red: "No, not mean."
Xu Yi in the smile, he looked to the river, bright lights shining river quietly sparkling, Yao Yu on his side, his peace of mind peace.
She do not say, as he and she understood. Satisfaction and gratitude echoed in the warm heart, he's very glad that they stick with the initiative.
"You have four students you will not have the kind of delicate pottery thousands of dust-sensitive, no Chenhui An gentle, no Dulei beautiful. I have been surprised, and I think for a long time, I'm sorry I did not want to come out like you do." He turned Yao rain gazing too far, can not tell the gentle tone, "I was wondering, I have met too many people, this time I failed to think out what you like. like me to slowly know that?"
Water, lighting all sink into the pupil of the eye in his deep, which has attracted Yao little light rain. Seems to get lost in a cave, saw a large bright dust needle, survival will inspire people to be dying the potential of life, despite all the trying to rush past.
Yao Yu Qiaode crazy, and totally did not think about whether a change in attitudes too fast, did not think he would have even looked at this dish fruit, into another moment thinking Tong does not appear in her mind.
"Shortness of breath the other day, cut it?" Xu Yi's hand gently across her ear hair.
Yao startled slightly touch the rain flick, sensitive ears red. Her awkward looked to one side: "No, not ... ... like, for species of hair ... ..." She just felt an atmosphere of ambiguity in the car so she can not stand more and more concentrated.
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What is she doing?
She and Xu Yi in the count? Tong thinking into it?
He count? Yao did not mind the rain a moment of silence was finally summon the courage to turn back after a short live to see Hui Yi in: "take me home? Thank you, I, I'm sorry ... ..."
Xu Yi thrown in the eyes of the gentle touch.Yao face in the eyes of all the rain made him look gay.
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He did not speak, continue to use soft eyes stared at her, the more uneasy Yao Yu, Yi Xu brings tears in the eyes of the plants is already firmly around her, she quietly pulled straight to the sink, she is like standing on wetland meadow, pulling no legs, and each time the move has the feeling of weightlessness.
Dangling not find warrant of a heart. All rely on instinct in the struggle, the voices are too weak opening.
"I ... ... or go back."
Xu Yi-in at her, could not help Banguo her face said softly: "You will give me a slap you?" Talking down to kiss.
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He sigh, hold pull her into his arms. She's very thin, Hui Yi also felt like the hold is not strong like, a moment before quietly asked her: "A man came out renters, or the point of take-out food?"
Yao in the rain suddenly awakened from a confused, murmured: "I think as he ... ... ... ... I really want to go back." She turned to open the face to push him, and my heart was not panic.
Xu Yi firmly in the hands of a reaction which caught tight her face: "Tong into thinking that he accompany you for dinner every day is it?"
Yao rain to bow the head can not move, she looked at him passively, with red eyes and knew.
"He came to Tibet to find you, he was good to you, you can not refuse is not it?" Xu Yi in the softly asked, he understands the contradictions Yao rain, however, do not force her, is really in trouble, "light rain, you
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Xu Yi-in sound more gentle, puzzled her: "You like me is not it? And understand, he said, ah?"
Yao Yu affectionate eye looking at him, nodded his head, moments of surprise, shook his head: "I will break his heart."
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"Rain," Xu Yi's voice thickened, "You know, you do not want to hurt him, but once you find that he can not go on like this a long time, you do not hurt him even more?"
Yi Yu Yao, in the words of that promise is not wrong, but she could not think of how thinking into the opening movement of Tong, a sudden extremely difficult.
Waiting for her thinking about going, Xu and Wen Zhu Yi in her, not a tender mood, with enthusiasm and wantonly attacked, and his kiss with his expulsion of the active attack Yao hegemonic open mind drifting rain. He felt he never want to kiss a child, want to hug her in his arms is no longer open.
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Xu Yi in her angry look. More and more of his eyes bright, full of gentle and sincere, and his mouth slightly curved upward tick charming, he was really handsome.
Yao Yu's face burned hot, do not know her reputation will be red.
Xu Yi in the hold back laughter, touched her short hair, its eyes to bring a hint of pain: "In the future do not cut."
Yao Yu mouth of a flat, floating above a layer of tears, crying with drops. Xu Yi in a while see distressed, he holds her hand: "Do not cut, long hair has been since, ah?"
"Short hair look good, they all say,"
"I want you to have long hair. Fool!" Xu Yi in the next kiss her forehead, "and consequently not even think about, hand organ, and follow me."
"You sell, sell valley to go!" In Oh Yi Xu laughed, started north of the mountain straight to the car.
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Trail Blazers-Pacers Preview
The Portland Trail Blazers' bench has helped the team pick up its scoring - and get back into the win column - after a rough start to their longest trip of the season.
Ending that stretch with another strong effort could be asking a lot with the defensive-minded Indiana Pacers up next.
Portland looks to close out its seven-game trip with a third consecutive victory Wednesday night when Indiana returns home from its own successful road stretch.
The Blazers' reserves are averaging a league-low 14.8 points, and they totaled 57 as the team averaged 86.5 points on the first four games of its trip.
Portland's bench, though, is coming off its two best offensive games of the season. Two days after totaling 29 points in an 118-117 double-overtime victory over Cleveland, Luke Babbitt had nine of the bench's 31 points in Monday's 118-112 overtime win over Charlotte.
Babbitt made three 3-pointers, including a game-tying shot with 22 seconds left in the fourth period that capped Portland's rally from 18 down in that period.
"Luke was big,'' forward LaMarcus Aldridge said after the Blazers won two straight road games for the first time since seven consecutive victories spanning Feb. 5-March 8, 2011. "He played solid on defense and he was big for us. They were doubling the block so coach (Terry Stotts) wanted to put a shooter out there. You can't leave Luke out there open. He opened up the floor for us.''
While the Pacers (9-9) should be aware of Babbitt setting up from beyond the arc, they should probably be more concerned about Nicolas Batum, Wesley Matthews and rookie Damian Lillard. They're a combined 39 for 113 from beyond the arc on the trip, and their 130 3s this season are more than 19 teams.
Indiana, though, is holding teams to 32.4 percent from long range, and it is among the league leaders in scoring defense (91.1 ppg) and field goal defense (40.6 percent). With Danny Granger likely out another two months with a left knee injury, the Pacers likely have to keep leaning on their defense since they're one of the lowest-scoring teams in the NBA with 90.3 points per game.
Paul George is coming off a season-best 34-point performance in Tuesday's 80-76 win over Chicago, but the Pacers' shooting percentage (36.3) was their worst in a victory since hitting 34.9 percent in an 81-76 win over Houston on Dec. 26, 2006.
Center Roy Hibbert posted his first double-double in four games on Tuesday with 10 points and 11 boards, but it was his block of Luol Deng in the final seconds of regulation that helped Indiana return home at .500 and complete a four-game road swing with three wins.
"That's my staple," said Hibbert, who has at least two blocks in each of the last 12 games. "If my offense isn't going, I always have to play defense."
That's going to be key against Aldridge, who is averaging 23.6 points and 9.4 rebounds since missing the Blazers' first game of the trip - a 98-85 loss to Brooklyn on Nov. 25 - with a stiff back.
Aldridge led the Blazers with 17 points in their last game versus Indiana, a 92-75 road loss on March 13. Portland was held to a season-low 20 field goals in that contest, and its five assists were an NBA low in 2011-12.
Indiana has won two straight in this series after dropping the previous five.
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Gee, I wish my after looked as good as your before! Your after makes me (almost) want to rearange and pitch stuff I have. but if I do that I won't sew!
Believe it or not I didn't throw anything out. In fact, I had about six big bins of fabric I hadn't even UNPACKED yet! I just threw everything in the middle of the floor and categorized. There are two more dressers with fabric you can't see in the picture.
Wow! That looks great and you have a nice sewing space! Now, would you like to come over and help me with mine?? LOL
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Awesome space, well organised!
So much space - how nice!
I am very envious...I would throw everything in the middle of the floor, but there is no middle, I have a sewing machine there!!!!! and "sew" much more
I have to take a break between sewing projects and re organize or else my room would constantly look like the first pic.. On good days it looks like the second pic.. Having a large room just means more space to mess up.. Your room is looking good.. and kudos to you if you can keep it that way....
Looks fabulous, now, can you keep it that way? Annette
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Asher Jay is more than just an artist, she makes the world aware of garbage recycling with great passion, writes Prabalika M. Borah
Asher is really fast. In her conversations. However, her discussions are stringed and not random chats. A conservationist, an artist, a model, a designer and an activist — Asher Jay, is driven with passion.
But why is her website called www.garbagea.com? "That's a part of what I do. Garbage management is a part of recycling, conserving and caring for the planet. I am so much in love with garbage that my house almost looks like a garbage dump. I don't allow my friends to discard anything because I want to make use of them in some way or the other in my art work or for my designs. In one such attempt I collected plastic bottles from my colony and coloured them and made each bottle represent a region and a cause," says Asher.
Asher is in town to showcase her work at Muse art gallery in Marriott. A staunch supporter of animal rights, Asher's work volume reflects her love for animals. She depicts poaching in a very intelligent way in her two-tone works. The one where she draws attention about Rhino poaching is a wonderful piece of work with the horns missing.
In another canvas, Asher uses pieces of white satin cloth to create a canvas on polar bear amidst snow. The collage work with the use of discarded satin cloth pieces is like an indication of the soft and silky feel of the polar bear which are being hunted down by human beings. "As a staunch supporter of animal rights, wildlife conservation, and sustainable development, I make sure I use all the creative faculties to spark an engaging visual discourse for the audiences across the globe," she says and also clarifies that Garbagea is not just a website. "That's my country, I have founded it and it is called The United Flotsam of Garbagea." Asher also loves making public appearances as Garbagea's Dump Dictator for Life and Ill-Will Ambassador to educate audiences of various age groups about the cultural mores and civic obligations embraced by citizens of her plastic provinces.
Asher's long list of degrees which she pursued one after the other made her friends wonder if she would ever be out of school? But she made sure she put all her degrees to right use. Asher loves telling how a holiday trip of hers to the coral reef ended her up as a garbage collector and she decided to make a difference with one voice. "I don't believe that a single voice cannot make a difference. When I was at Coral reef, I would go out with my snorkelling gear and pick garbage and at the end of my holiday I was able to clean up more than I thought. Something similar happened when I went to Africa. I not only cleaned but also engaged the jungle resort staff to do the same. I made such a ruckus to see that they are strict in their garbage handling policy that they made sure they were prepared for me the following day."
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08/01/2007 at 16:28
Random thought from my run today - "At what point can I reasonably start to wonder if I'm running as fast as I'm capable of?"
There's obviously an intrinsic limit on the maximum speed anyone can run at, and a level at which we will plateau even with optimal training. And we know that for the fastest distance runners it comes somewhere between 4.15mm and 5mm pace, depending on gender and race distance.
That's the top end of the scale. But what about the rest of us? Is there a
limit on maximal performance? Is there a mile speed that, say, 95% of able-bodied young adult men or women (assuming there are two overlapping bell-curves, and that is just an assumption on my part) ought to be able to achieve with appropriate training? And if so, where are the actual numbers to be found?
Anyone know?
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08/01/2007 at 16:49
Have you looked in Noakes' The Lore of Running (2004)? - not sure if there is anything there though - might be worth checking his references. Wonder if any research has been done at Loughborough?
I'm wondering if it's possible to come out with a figure at all - there must be 1000s of different genetic, social, and biomechanic reasons why people can't run a 5 minute mile - so how fast can they run with training? Do we know how much each biomenchanical/genetic factor slows someone down by? And suppose a person is affected by more than one of these factors? How much does each factor slow them down?
Or ... if they have terrible knock knees but the awesome lung capacity of a record breaker? What happens then? How much can they improve by? Could the totally talentless actually achieve a 5mmile pace with surgery, intensive gait remediation work and cutting edge (and highly illegal) performance enhancing drugs? - how are you defining "appropriate training"
Sorry, just a few random thoughts - a lot more interesting than doing what I'm meant to be doing though. apologies if they are wide of the mark but it's an interesting subject ...
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Torque Steer
08/01/2007 at 17:12
I suppose one could make some sort of statistical analysis from mass participation events such as FLM or GNR(less likely now!) on the basis that those at the sharp end have done the maximal training preparation that they could.
Statistically that would give quite a good representation of age groups and sex but after say the first 3,000 ( to pluck a number at random - not very scientific!) assume that maximal training had not been achieved:-))
Only trouble is that because of the random nature of entry selection good class club runners and non attached runners of equal quality may not be in any one years event and so the averages are dragged down a bit.
Also the overall average standards (as opposed to absolute standards) of distance running in such events have declined over the years partly perhaps because of the entry systems.
Proof of that bold statement?
In 1985 I scarcely managed a top 1,000 place in FLM in a time of 2:44.
Last year that would get me in the top 600!
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08/01/2007 at 17:13
I've read The Lore of Running cover to cover, Lizzy. Yes, really, I'm THAT sad! What I'm looking for isn't there. Maybe it doesn't exist, because I suppose what I'm looking for is a quantitative assessment of the minimum level of performance that someone who isn't a natural born runner (like me, for example!) could reasonably say, "THAT is as fast as I can run."
Which would mean doing research and collecting statistics on runners who are training hard but are never really going to be good enough to be of national or even regional interest.
And yes, there are loads of internal and external factors that will impact on what we can achieve. And lots of reasons for choosing not to chase one's genetic potential in what, for most of us, is an intrinsically pointless hobby.
By "appropriate training", I mean appropriate running training, treatment and rehabilitation for injuries or for medical conditions (such as asthma) which could affect running performance, and adequate nutrition. Anything else is very tiny print.
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08/01/2007 at 17:16
Indeed, TS :o) My position relative to the overall field, and in my age category, at FLM2003 (my best FLM perfomance so far) was almost identical to my position relative to the overall field, and in my age category, at Abingdon last year. I was 47 minutes faster at Abingdon.
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08/01/2007 at 17:20
I've often wondered about this. Like what is the best someone could be if they were trained & coached since they were old enough.
I think there would be potential for amazing athletes of any sport if they were coached from an early age - forget school, friends, eveything. Obviously that's totally immoral but it makes an interesting thought. I suppose sports coaches who openly condone the practices of some of the training regeims of the former soviet union & indeed china for events like the Olympics must privately be very curious about the results achieved.
I'd like to know what could be reached if priority was only given to the sport. With no thought of the athlete. Like the way those young female gymnasts are pretty much broken by the time they are 20 if not long before - surely that kind of goes along the same lines of what I'm thinking.
*obviously I wouldn't like to see anyone put through such training but I do like to daydream about what's possible
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08/01/2007 at 17:32
so to expand the sample one would have to take in good rated events with a similar course profile so that times were not distorted by difficulties such as hills or admission problems that skew the results.
These woud then have to have a "regional" factor applied so that the reduced pool of talent entering is compensated for. perhaps done by adjustment based upon relationship of top runners in each age group with similar runners (UK?) in national events such as FLM.
Statistically one can already see the difficulties of processing such data but don't let me dissuade you:-))))
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08/01/2007 at 18:05
Or one would have to observe the effects of intensive training on lots and lots of motivated non-elite runners - probably over 10,000 completers to achieve statistical significance, and about 100,000 entrants to the study because the dropout rate is likely to be phenomenal - for as long as a decade.
I wonder if I could get a grant big enough to cover that one ;o)
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08/01/2007 at 18:22
could be a couple of phd's in this.
Just the sort of thing lottery money should support - £100K each a year plus assistants ( to do all the work) :-)
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08/01/2007 at 21:20
Incredibly difficult to study that. So many confounding factors. Even if you could actually measure those factors meaningfully, you'd still have to make certains assumptions about how those factors influence performance (e.g. linear / quadratic / inverted U / threshold effects etc). With assumptions flying around for so many factors, i would have that much confidence in the result. I just think its impossibly complicated to get an unconfounded measure of the effect of genes on performance - genes will also affect how someone responds to the other factors (interaction effects).
Then, as others have pointed out, even if you had a good experimental design, it would be very long term and require lots of participants - a logstical nightmare! It would rquire some hefty funding, and what's more what organisations with that kind of money would have an interest in the findings of such a running specific study anyway?
Coming down to pure opinion now. I think if we are talking about young healthy people doing all they can in terms of training / lifestyle, i think we'd have a bell curve with the peak about 10% slower than WR. Obviously the fastest tip at WR, and the slowest tip (those poor souls whose bodies were really not born to excel at running) at about 20% slower than WR.
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08/01/2007 at 21:31
>Scratches head and fiddles with abacus<
So, even if I'm at the shallow end of the athletic gene pool, by those figures I shouldn't consider myself to have fulfilled my potential until I've run a marathon at around 6.15mm pace ...
Lots to train for, then :o)
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08/01/2007 at 22:48
Alex - are you saying that the least talented men could do a sub 2.30 marathon given the optimum training ? Hmmm, I think I'd go for a rather wider distribution than that and I reckon the slow end of the distribution would taper away much more gradually with some people never able to complete 26 miles at any pace whatever they did.
08/01/2007 at 22:49
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vrap - you are a doctor right, i feel faint
20% slower than world record ok Just did a google search for WR for 5km on the roads 14:46
20% slower if my maths is right
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09/01/2007 at 00:19
Well obviously a certain % are never going to finish a marathon because of some congenital disability. after that, i think you'd have a very long left-hand tail, a strongly right-shifted curve dropping away to zero soon on the right-hand side of the peak.
not sure where the peak would lie though - I'd suggest somewhere around a top-end club finisher (who probably has some innate advantage over typical population, but this will probably be balanced by not-quite optimal training due not not being a full-time well-resourced professional).
I'm probably a fair bit to the left of the peak in innate ability, but as measured against UK population well off to the right through training :)
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09/01/2007 at 01:55
I think Alex's estimate is sound. If you're talking about reaching teh peak that your genes will let you then we have to assume that the subject is able to train as per a professional athlete - ie multiple sessions a day. With that kind of training all of us would no doubt make marked imporvements.
Currently I train about 6 hours a week over six days - sounds pretty pathetic when you compare it to the hours you put in for a full time job doesn't it?
I'm currently hoping to get to close to a 3 hour marathon on just the 6 hours of training a week. I'm sure if I could afford to train like a full time job & had the motivation to do it I could be many times better than I am now - we all could.
I think the only way to really find out would be totally unethical. Something like having identical twins - letting on live a normal life & have the other train to run from as soon as they are able to - I'm guessing the age those child gymnasts start would be a good start.
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09/01/2007 at 05:45
doesn't all this depend alot on leg length though?
aren't shorter runners destined to be at the far end of the bell curve
and what about different rates of deterioraton due to ageing?
so even if you had the bell curve data
you'd need to stratify it by age and height imho
and i suspect it would be less accurate because of the differences in ageing rates
you also raise the scarey possibility of having to divide people up by ethnicity
should a kenyan amateur runner who grew up in the high altitude be given a different set of stats to aim for
would we have to issue different stats to aim for depending if you're black or white??????
would we take into account poor nutrition in childhood for runners from the third world?
etc etc
although academically interesting
i think it's a potentially scarey line to go down this theoretical "genetic potential"
surely the scienctific analysis would demand a set of info and figures that in real life would be both demotivating and difficult to digest
09/01/2007 at 09:10
Why is it scary, LoK? There's no intrinsic merit, practically or morally, in being able to run fast.
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09/01/2007 at 09:59
Interesting thread and a good question VRAP. Certainly from my understanding and reading of the subject over many years. Leg speed (short distance running) is largely genetic. When it comes to endurance running however, genetics play less of a role and the body's adaptation becomes more significant. The reason why Kenyan and Ethiopian long distance runners excel is largely due to the fact that they start running long distance from a very young age. They adapt and specialise to the event. VO2max, running economy etc. They also have successful role models and their beief/expectation is greater.
I frequently hear Brenden Foster bleating that we do not have any great 'European' runners on the world scene and it is unlikely to change. We are looking at a cultural difference rather than a genetic difference!
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09/01/2007 at 10:24
TC - are you sure? Bodies genetically evolved to live and love at high altitude are gonna be quids in for fatigue management and energy development needed for endurance when at sea level. I'm not entirely convinced that all of the kenyan ability comes from training earlier.
Genetic limits - definitely but I am inclined to believe, and it's only my belief, that the bulk of the populace could be up in the top quartile at races if they made the same life choices that these runners do.
We don't have to look at the very top elites as they are so far over the population/ability bell curve you are 5 sigma out.
General bods can be better we just don't make being better the life priority when we are young enough for it to count.
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09/01/2007 at 10:52
Stump, you are making the classic mistake of confusion two very different terms; adaptation and evolution.
This is why Paula Radcliffe trains at altitude (her body adapts) and yes if you are born/raised/run at altitude your body adapts from an earlier age!
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OpCodes.Volatile Field
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The stack transitional behavior, in sequential order, is:
An address is pushed onto the stack.
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The Unaligned and volatile prefixes can be combined in either order. They must immediately precede a ldind, stind, ldfld, stfld, ldobj, stobj, initblk, or cpblk instruction. Only the volatile prefix is allowed for the Ldsfld and Stsfld instructions.
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See SA-CONTRIB-2015-039 - Views - Multiple vulnerabilities
Changes since 7.x-3.8:
Changes since 6.x-2.16:
Changes since 6.x-3.0:
SA-CONTRIB-2014-054 - Views - Access Bypass
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Changes since 7.x-3.6:
The security issue in views is caused by various places in the views UI where a string is not sanitized, because it has been assumed to be static and by commiters, though you can change some of these strings using other administrative permissions. SA-CONTRIB-2013-035 - Views - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
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This issue fixed some issues which got introduced in the last release, so it is highly recommended for everyone.
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WARNING: Maintainers are working to fix a bug that was found after the 7.x-3.4 release that causes some Views pages, blocks, attachments and feeds to disappear after upgrading from 3.3 to 3.4. Stay informed of progress at the following link: 7.x-3.4 Upgrade is cancelling boolean operator settings. It is recommended to wait to upgrade until this bug has been fixed.
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Dev branch of Views
#1450268: Fatal error: Call to undefined function language_fallback_get_candidates() caused a lot of trouble for people using fields but don't have locale enabled. This release is an emergency release based on that issue. I'm sorry for that!
Changes since 7.x-3.2 (5 commits):
This release concentrated on major bug fixes, fixing of tests and some better documentation of the code. Here is a list of the changes.
The next release will get some new features again, which are already in the issue queue, which didn't get in this time.
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Thanks for all contributors on views3, especially dagmar.
If you want to get the new features of views3 look at previous changelogs/drupal watchdog or some presentations on drupalcamps/drupalcons. It's too much to describe here.
Changes since 6.x-3.0-rc3:
After two years and a lot of hard work by multiple contributors and companies here is the final version of 7.x-3.0.
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Hopefully this will be more or less the last big step before a release.
Not this release fixes a security problem, which can be seen as critical
The Views module is useful for creating lists of items in Drupal sites. Some filters incorrectly used Drupal's built-in database api, so they didn't escaped some arguments correctly. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that a site must have a view with this filter to be enabled in order to be exploited.
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heycal, I'm having some trouble imagining the location of the two pain areas you're describing. "Upper lumbar/lower thoracic region" seems vaguely in the same area as "middle/upper lumbar area" to me. Is the latter a tad lower than the former? As described in your MRI report in the first page, most clinicians describe back pain at the level of a specific bone ("at the level of the L5/S1 junction"). Referred back pain can and usually does refer downwards but not upwards.
It may very well be that you have 2 separate issues such as an acute muscle strain or spasm near your thoracic/lumbar junction and a chronic degenerative spinal condition causing the soreness/stiffness. However, I wouldn't worry about it at this point because your PT will help you sort out the muscle strain first probably using a combination of massage, heat, stretching and anti inflammatory topicals. If she's right in that the two symptoms are related, both should go away. If she's wrong, then she will help you sort out the second condition next.
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Step 1: Ingredients
1 1/4 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup warm water
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp distilled white or apple cider vinegar
Chocolate Glaze
1/2 cup sugar
4 tbsp margarine
2 tbsp soy milk
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tsp vanilla extract
Note: if you don't care to make it vegan, or don't have soy milk or margarine, you can use butter in place of the margarine, and whatever milk you prefer in place of the soy.
Step 2: Mix
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I made this cake for our church get-together and it was a big hit! The only complaint was that there wasn't enough! I've made it several times now, and have played with the recipe a bit-one time adding some cinnamon, another time adding a teaspoon of instant coffee for a mocha flavor. Always delicious!! Thanks for posting the recipe!
For fellow Brits: "Baking powder" is what we call baking SODA. If you use our baking powder, you don't need the vinegar. Self-raising flour doesn't need either additive. Here's my bread-machine cake, with injuries from the wire rack. I stuck it all back together with frosting ;)
Hi, I just wanted to say that actually what here in America is called "baking powder" is also called "baking powder" in the UK, but what Americans call "baking soda" Brits call "bicarbonate of soda". You can find both in the baking aisle at Sainsburys or any other supermarket. I always get the yellow Dr. Oetker brand and the baking powder comes with a red lid and the bicarbonate of soda comes with a blue lid. I hope this helps :). Also have to say that I have had only amazing results with this cake and as a vegan am in love with this recipe!
Also a brit here! I'm still a wee bit confused, do I use Baking Powder or Bicarbonate of Soda in this cake?
And do I still use the vinegar?
I don't wanna attempt this and make it wrong first time :(
Thank you!
This cake tastes awesome! However, my cake fell in the center. I followed recipe exactly any suggestions? Has anyone made cupcakes?
From my experience, this usually means that there are too many large air bubbles in the batter and/or the oven is too hot which makes the cake rise too much when in the oven but sink when it's cooled because it isn't firm enough or you need a bit more flour. When I made this cake, I tapped the tin on the counter a few times to break the larger air bubbles and to even out the batter. I set my oven to 170 degrees Celsius (about 338 F) because I used a fan-assisted oven.
Also, for cupcakes I used http://ohsheglows.com/2011/03/08/vegan-chocolate-cupcakes-with-vanilla-almond-frosting-and-raspberry-glaze/ which was loosely based on this recipe and they turned out great :)
I've baked this twice now for my Vegan Granddaughter. I make a dozen cupcakes out of the batter. Everyone loves them! They are a hit! Thank you so much for posting this!
Grease your pan. It'll stick otherwise. Probably should have mentioned this in the instructions.
I've made this a few times and it's SO good, my mom keeps requesting this cake, it's her favorite chocolate cake too.
Hey I tried making this cake with all ingredients halved (a small cake). The cake had a strong awful taste of baking soda. I see so many positive comments and really don't know what went wrong. I surely had halved baking soda too. Please suggest how to replace baking soda with baking powder in this recipe
I've made this recipe on numerous occasions and it always gets rave reviews! It is the most moist chocolate cake I have ever had. I've also used this recipe as a base for vanilla cupcakes by swapping out the cocoa powder for more flour and upping the vanilla to 1 tbsp - the only vanilla cupcakes I have ever made that have not over risen in the oven. Such a great recipe!! The below picture is a double batch made in 2 9 inch pans topped with chocolate "butter"cream :)
I've tried this recipe with the vanilla version like you mentioned, but the cake had a strong awful taste of baking soda. I followed the recipe as is. Please let me know how can I substitute baking powder for baking soda in this recipe. I see so many positive comments and really don't know why my cake did not turn good. Really want to give it a try again.
Please suggest
oh my that looks amazing Michelle. do you have a cake decorating tool to make those swirleys?
Crikey, that looks beautiful!! You put my broken, square-shaped cake to shame. It still tasted wonderful, though ;)
What's the toppings to decorate and can I get them from Coles or Woolies???
I used coconut oil for the glaze instead of margarine, and it turned out great! I also microwaved the glaze to melt the oil and the sugar, and it also created a great creamy texture. I love this recipe. It is also important to grease the pan, because the first time I made this I had an extremely ahrd time removing the cake from the pan after baking.
I don't understand what I did wrong!? I followed the instructions and used all the right ingredients that was listed and my cake tasted so bad. Please help if you possible know what I did wrong.
considering all this talk about margine not being vegan friendly (and the fact that we only have butter in the cupboard anyway) was thinking of replacing the marargine in the glaze to vegtable oil, has anyone tried this before?
Margarine is what gives the consistency to the glaze, I don't think it would work. You can try make your own vegan butter with a coconut oil base! Recipe here http://www.veganbaking.net/recipes/fats/vegan-butters/vegan-butter
I made this last night for my sisters 26th Birthday.. It was soo good!!!! 10 out of 10 people LOVED it! I doubled it to make 3 thinnish tiers.. Thank you for sharing!
Oh and I used a vegan buttercream frosting instead of the chocolate one in this recipe.. :) Yummm..
I've made this recipe dozens of times! i've made it as is and other times i've replaced the oil with greek yogurt (no longer vegan then, but i don't usually cook/bake for vegans so it doesn't matter) and scaled back the sugar to 3/4 cups and it's delicious both ways. i've made it as a full on cake one or two times but usually just add chocolate chips and put the batter in muffin tins. the recipe pretty much makes one dozen muffins if anyone is curious :)
Thanks! I was wondering how many cupcakes it would make. Thanks for commenting about reducing the sugar too. I try to never put the whole amount the recipe calls for.
got all confused with the Brit vs American when it comes to baking soda and baking powder - could someone please illuminate me as to what type of "baking" it really is in the recipe that we need to add 1 tsp of?
Baking soda is also called bicarb, that is what I think is meant to be in this recipe.
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